I for one as a part of the list would be interested if there was an attempt
to tie together loose ends like self taught vs. apprenticeships here or
abroad.
Howard Darr
Clymer PA
> For those of us not yet born then or still living on different
> continents or not yet into bicycles, when did all this happen,
> approximately?
>
> Maybe a timeline of American builders/manufacturers would be useful.
> Could start from the very beginning. With all those glorious pre-WW I
> brands, when American bikes were considered the best of the world.
> But mostly the current stuff, from Wastyn via Paramount, the early
> pioneers such as Eisentraut and others, etc. The little I know is
> from Konlin/De la Rosa's book "The Custom Bicycle," not the most
> reliable of sources.
>
> It should include off-topic brands, such as Diamond Back (may have
> been on-topic in the early days) and Cannondale.
>
> If this is of no interest to this list, please e-mail me off-list,
> and I'll put it in an upcoming issue of Vintage Bicycle Quarterly on
> American cycling...
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